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Japan's Defense Agency may get upgrade
Jun 8 2006 11:59PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's Cabinet on Friday endorsed a bill to upgrade the Defense Agency to a full-fledged ministry, reflecting the military's growing role at home and abroad.
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Southern China landslides kill at least 12
Jun 8 2006 11:00PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Landslides triggered by torrential rain in southern China killed at least 12 people and injured 24, while residents in another province escaped unhurt after the bank of a river collapsed and flooded nearby villages, the government said Friday.
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Bin Laden keeps lower profile than Zarqawi
Jun 8 2006 10:18PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Tracking down Osama bin Laden has proven tougher than getting to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi because the top al-Qaida leader does almost nothing to call attention to himself and is protected by a ring of far more faithful followers, intelligence experts said Thursday.
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Man gives up Everest climb for rescue
Jun 8 2006 7:23PM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Just days after a British climber was left to die near Mount Everest's summit, an American guide abandoned his second bid to stand on top of the world so he could rescue a mountaineer mistakenly given up for dead.
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Sri Lanka talks with rebels collapse
Jun 8 2006 6:59PM (CT)
OSLO, Norway (AP) - Talks intended to shore up the fraying cease-fire on Sri Lanka collapsed before they could start Thursday when ethnic Tamil rebels refused to sit down with government officials from the South Asian island nation.
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U.S. military vehicle hits Afghan minibus
Jun 8 2006 3:02PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A U.S. military vehicle slammed into an oncoming bus outside the Afghan capital Thursday, injuring four civilians just 10 days after another crash involving U.S. forces sparked deadly riots.
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Mount Merapi villagers flee volcano's heat
Jun 8 2006 1:34PM (CT)
MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia (AP) - Mount Merapi spewed a column of gas and sent clouds of hot ash tumbling down its slopes Thursday, causing 15,000 villagers to flee. Some jumped into rivers to escape the searing heat, and others sped off in trucks.
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North Korea: Missing S. Korean man alive
Jun 8 2006 7:40AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea on Thursday confirmed that a missing South Korean man allegedly kidnapped decades ago is living in the North, and said that it would allow him to meet with his South Korean mother this month.
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U.S. military vehicle in new Afghan crash
Jun 8 2006 7:39AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A U.S. military vehicle hit a minibus on a road outside the Afghan capital on Thursday and injured at least three civilians, more than a week after another crash involving U.S. forces sparked deadly riots.
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Boat carrying 70 capsizes off Bangladesh
Jun 8 2006 5:55AM (CT)
CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (AP) - A boat carrying more than 70 people capsized Thursday in rough waters off Bangladesh's coast, police said. Rescuers recovered at least 16 bodies.
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East Timor commanding world's attention
Jun 8 2006 5:29AM (CT)
DILI, East Timor (AP) - Years ago, an Indonesian foreign minister brushed off international criticism of his nation's brutal occupation of East Timor, calling the territory "a pebble in our shoe." Seven years after East Timor's bloody break from Indonesia, however, the tiny country is becoming a perennial problem for the rest of the world.
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Peru's president-elect faces tough road
Jun 8 2006 4:53AM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - Urban Peruvians were willing to give Alan Garcia a chance to atone for his catastrophic first presidency in last weekend's election runoff, fearful of handing the country to his nationalist opponent.
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Blind S. Korea masseurs open trade to all
Jun 8 2006 4:50AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Banging their red-and-white canes on the ground, dozens of visually impaired South Koreans are protesting daily under a bridge in Seoul against a court decision they say robs them of one of the few ways they can make a living: working as masseurs.
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